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ROX-Filer 2.7 (the file manager at the core of the ROX desktop) has been
released.
You can install it by entering this URL into AddApp:
http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer
To upgrade:
- Right click on the application and choose 'Versions...' from the menu.
- Click on 'Refresh all now'.
- Ensure 'Help test new versions' is selected.
For more information, including package downloads, see:
http://roscidus.com/desktop/ROX-Filer
Changes in 2.7:
NEW FEATURES
- New panel configuration GUI (Tony Houghton):
- Created new Panel Options dialog in Templates.glade.
- Changing panel side is now in the dialog.
- Created new panel menu item.
- Implemented Remove Panel menu item.
- Pinboard menu has "Add panel" submenu.
- Added panel_side_to_{translated_}name.
- Options are stored with each panel.
Use new panels config file to decide which panels to create with -S (Tony
Houghton) .
Fixed some problems and cleaned up some things in my new Panel Options
code spotted by Thomas Leonard (Tony Houghton).
Got rid of panel options from main Options dialog (Tony Houghton).
No longer warn about options without widgets.
- Added a log viewer (Thomas Leonard).
On the Window menu there is now a "Show Log" item which opens a window
displaying a log of recent actions. Currently, only actions involving
an action window are logged. The action is logged when you request the
action (so it might not have actually been performed). The log window
was created using Glade, and this therefore adds a Glade dependency
on ROX-Filer, along with some support code to use it.
Make the log window close when the Close button is clicked (Stephen Watso=
n)
- Added automatic placement and updating to PinboardAdd RPC (Dennis
Tomas).
- Try to find icons in ROX and gnome themes if not in configured
theme (Tony Houghton).
CHANGES
- Use text/base theme colours for the Collection widget,
not fg/bg. (Andras Mohari) This provides a good default for the
Collection widget, and is consistent with other widgets (GtkEntry,
GtkTreeView...).
Setting the colours in .gtkrc-2.0 is unnecessary now (unless someone
wants to override theme colours, of course).
- Updated xdgmime* files from CVS source (retrieved 2007-08-18)
(Stephen Watson).
- Making new ROX-Filer releases is now handled by 0release (Thomas
Leonard).
TRANSLATIONS
- Switched completely to standard gettext (Thomas Leonard).
We used to use our own implementation of the gettext functions so that
the user could switch langauges on the fly. However, that doesn't work
with Glade and it wasn't very useful anyway, so it has all been
removed.
One visible change is that e.g. "LANG=3Dfr rox -n" no longer works. You
have to use the full string (e.g. "LANG=3Dfr_FR.utf8 rox -n").
- Added preliminary support for Glade translations (Andras Mohari, as
suggested by Lennon Cook). We check for the presence of libintl.h
and use the bindtextdomain() call to tell Glade where to find its
catalogs.
Build failed on Solaris, because libintl wasn't linked in (Stephen
Watson).
- Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
- Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
BUG FIXES
- In the Properties box, the text in the "Contents Indicate" part of the
box can now be selected and pasted (Thomas Leonard).
- Made uniconify from pinboard work properly with metacity (Tony
Houghton): _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message now has timestamp and source
field is set to 2 (pretend we're a pager).
When uniconifying, set "requestor's currently active window"
to zero to be on the safe side (Thomas Leonard).
- Arrow keys didn't work in details view (Thomas Leonard; reported by
Dennis Nezic and others).
GTK likes to select rows as you move over them. Since we don't want
that, ROX-Filer marks the rows as unselectable. However, newer GTK
versions refuse to move the cursor at all if the selection behaviour
is disabled.
- Don't print CRITICAL message if there is no fstab available,
for Mac OS X (Stephen Watson, suggested by Anders F Bj=F6rklund).
- Make it clearer what the "Save Display Settings" does (Stephen
Watson).
- Combined adding of release event with motion event for pinboard icons
(Tony Houghton). Doesn't seem necessary to add release event
explicitly, but best be on safe side.
- Fixed build problem on GTK 2.6: GTK_STOCK_INFO doesn't exist
(Thomas Leonard; reported by Stephen Watson).
- Escape special characters when opening the shell minibuffer (Thomas Leona=
rd).
If you click on files while the shell minibuffer is open then the names a=
re
escaped, but if you open it with a file under the cursor then the name wa=
sn't
escaped (reported by Nils-Erik Svang=E5rd).
- Fix occasional core dump with multiple magic matches (Stephen
Watson).
- Use the directory icon for mount points if the icon theme has no icon
for mount points (Andras Mohari).
- Use pathdup() in diritem_restart(), not readlink_dup(), to ensure that
we get the full pathname and not a path relative to the filer's
working directory (Stephen Watson).
- Fixed crash when running a .desktop file in terminal (Dennis Tomas).
- Strip .xpm or .svg extensions from Icon entry in .desktop files
(Dennis Tomas).
- When clicking on toolbar buttons, don't crash if gtk_get_current_event
returns NULL (Thomas Leonard). This is the case when ATK is used.
- Need to use unsigned char when reading the header of an Exif file to
avoid problems on some hardware (Stephen Watson, reported by Musus
Umbra).
Have fun!
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